Duda’s employer targeted by the prosecutor’s office. Illegal casinos in the background

ZEN.com became famous in Poland when former President Andrzej Duda joined its supervisory board, from October 2025. The former president is responsible for “dialogue with international partners and regulators”, which is intended to help the company expand into Asian and Middle Eastern markets. “Concessions, licenses, permits, all legal restrictions on the freedom of business activity were my area of ​​specialization,” explained the former president.

ZEN was established in 2020 in Rzeszów. It is licensed to operate in the UK, Lithuania and Singapore. He argues that he currently operates on 32 markets in Europe and Asia, and is applying for a license in Hong Kong. It offers multi-currency cards and bank accounts. It earns profits from card payments, currency margins, commissions on transactions processed through the payment gateway and from revenues from processing payments for e-commerce and cryptocurrency companies. Media reports indicate that it is a payment operator for illegal gambling platforms in Poland.

Money laundering and the Russian mafia

It is hardly surprising that the District Prosecutor’s Office in Warsaw is trying to play it safe this time. There is still thick and suffocating dust in the air related to the collapse of Zondacrypto, a cryptocurrency trading platform. Pulling the wool over customers’ eyes, denying insolvency, sudden closure of the business and the departure of President Przemysław Kral from Monaco to Israel do not give the investigators credit.

According to information from Prime Minister Donald Tusk, he estimates the number of people harmed by Zondakrypto at approximately 30,000. people, and the missing assets amount to up to half a billion zlotys. Money laundering and the Russian mafia appear in the background. About 700 people have already contacted the prosecutor’s office in Katowice.

This time, investigators want to determine in advance whether “there is a reasonable suspicion of committing a crime that may constitute the basis for initiating preparatory proceedings,” says the message posted by the prosecutor’s office on the X platform.

Lithuanians have already imposed a fine on ZEN.com

– I accept co-responsibility for ensuring that ZEN.com is an institution that is as safe as possible for consumers – assured Andrzej Duda after joining the company. However, an article by Piotr Szostak on tvn24.pl shows that casinos, which are illegal in Poland, constitute a significant segment of this company’s activities. According to Szostak, ZEN.com acts as a payment gateway for websites banned in Poland.

Moreover, the inspection of ZEN.com’s activities from October 2022 to February 2024 was carried out by Lithuanians. Inspectors of the Bank of Lithuania pointed out many procedural irregularities, the most serious of which concerned the prevention of money laundering and terrorist financing. The fine for the fintech is EUR 1.8 million.

KO MP Paweł Kowal called on the voivodeship marshal. Podkarpackie Władysław Ortyl to immediately clarify the relationship between the voivodeship and the company, which is the titular patron of the congress center in Jasionka near Rzeszów. According to the MP, ZEN.com may have provided instrumentation to Zondacrypto customers.

Fintech claims that it currently has about one and a half million individual customers, and about 10,000 also use its services. companies. The company’s revenues in 2025 exceeded PLN 400 million. It employs approximately 600 people worldwide. It operates on 32 markets in Europe and Asia. Its goal is to build a global financial platform.